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THE 

GREAT MYSTERY 

EXPLAINED, 

OR THE 

INDIANS OF AMERICA 

PROVEN TO BE THE 

TEN TKIBES OF ISRAEL. 

BY 

DR. DANIEL H. LAWRENCE. 




CINCINNATI: 
1851. 



NOTE. 

Gentle Reader : you need not expect that I am going to weary your patience 
or my own, by giving you a lengthy preface, or formal apology; and as for in- 
troduction, I will hereby introduce you to the body of the work, and let you read 
for yourself. But before you commence, I have one word of friendly admonition 
to give youi and that is this: please to do yourself the favor, and your humble 
servant the justice, to read this book through carefully —-examine every subject 
thoroughly, — scrutinize every position rigidly, — measure every sentence critically, 
— weigh every argument fairly, — decide every point impartially, — and act upon 
the whole matter honestly; and then think as you please. 

The author claims the originality of the whole work of this little book. 

Dr. DANIEL H. LAWRENCE. 



Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty -nine, by 
DR. DANIEL H. LAWRENCE, 
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Indiana. 



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THE GREAT MYSTERY EXPLAINED. 



II. ESDBAS, Claap. XIII. 

Ver. 39. And, whereas, thou sawest that he gathered another 
peaceable multitude unto him; 

40. They are the ten tribes which were carried away prison- 
ers out of their own land in the time of Osea, the king, 
whom Salmanasar, the King of Assyria, led away captive, 
and he carried them over the waters, and so they came 
into another land. * 

41. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they 
would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth 
into a farther country, where never mankind dwelt. 

42. That they might there keep their statutes, which they 
never kept in their own land. 

43. And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passages 
of the river. 

44. For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held 
still the flood, till they were passed over. 

45. For through that country there was a great way to go, 
namely, of a year and a half; and the same region is 
called Arsareth. 

46. Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now. 
when they shall begin to come. 

47. The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, 
that they may go through : therefore sawest thou the mul- 
titude with peace. 

48. But those that be left behind of thy people are they that 
are found within my borders. 

49. Now, when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations 
that are gathered together, he shall defeno^ his people that 
remain. \ ^-^^^ 

50. And then shall he shew them great wonders. 

Remarks. 

1st, The ten tribes of Israel were to go to a land that never 
was known ; and at that time there was no country which 
was not known excepting the continent of America, where, 
undoubtedly, at that time, no mankind had dwelt. Accord- 
ing to the Bible, the Israelites did not keep their laws and 
statutes in their own land. 

2d, There entering into the Euphrates by the narrow pas- 
sage of the river, that is, they entered with their ships into 



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Euphrates by the small river Chebar,for God had given them 
a leader, and gave signs unto them as he had done to the 
Israelites when Moses brought them out of Egypt; and God 
also kept the sea from getting rough, and also he kept them 
from starving, the same as he did under Moses when he 
brought them out of Egypt. 

3d, This vision saith that they shall stay till the latter 
times, and then they shall return back to their own country 
again, in the same manner that they had come here. In 
the above mentioned year and a half, the ten tribes of Israel 
crossed over to the north-west part of the continent of 
America, and then they went on southward and settled down 
upon all the islands of the sea, and also upon the whole con- 
tinent of North and South America, as far as the South Pole 
in Central America. They lived in great cities, and also in 
Mexico, for when they first came over they were altogether 
civilized, and they had great temples and high priests, the 
same as the Israelites had in times of old 

4£h, The mounds that are found all over the continent of 
America, they were the high places on which they offered 
sacrifices unto the Great Spirit; but that they offered human 
sacrifices, as tradition saith, this I very much doubt, being, 
as I believe, that known of the red men of the north and of 
the east ever offered any such sacrifices. 

5tk, The way that the ten tribes of Israel have been scat- 
tered all over this whole continent, it was through their con- 
tinental wars which they kept up amongst themselves, and 
thus they become scattered all over the whole continent; and 
then they became uncivilized, but they still kept up wars among 
themselves, one tribe fighting against the other, until they 
became a most wretched people above all other people upon 
the face of the earth; as it was prophesied by Moses that the 
curse should follow them, wherever they were scattered, 
throughout the world, if they did not keep the laws and 
statutes which God gave them by Moses. 

6th, The eastern red men have a tradition which saith, 
that all the eastern red men first came from the far west, 
and then they scattered all over the whole south-east, and over 
the whole east, and also over the whole north-east countries. 
The red men of America, they have the same national pride 
that the old Israelites had ; they are terrible in war ; they 
begin the battle with a shout; and the old Israelites began 
the battle with blowing the trumpet and with a shout. 

1th, The red men take a delight in torturing their prisoners 
whom they conquer in war, the old Israelites did the same, 
" For King David was a righteous man,** but in the (xi. chap. 



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of II. Samuel, ver. 31) we read thus, " And he brought forth 
the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and 
under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made 
them pass through the brick kilns, and thus did he unto all 
the cities of the children of Amon, so David and all the 
people returned unto Jerusalem and (Judas Maccabees) caught 
the ungodly Jews, and burned them all." This is but a little 
of the proof we could give from the Bible of the cruel conduct 
of the old Israelites against their conquered enemy. 

8th, The red men of America are the most truly righteous 
people which are upon the earth at this time, their children 
honor their parents, they do not lie, they do not swear, they 
do not steal ; there is no fornication amongst them, they are 
permitted to divorce their wives, but they generally live 
with them through life. In that case, they are not like the 
old Pharisees, who made a practice of divorcing their wives. 
The red men do keep the Ten Commandments in every 
respect as they were delivered unto Moses from God, they 
do not covet, they do not lie, they do not swear, nor steal, 
nor use the name of God in vain. 

9th, It is said that all men who ever have undertaken to 
shew from what parts of the world the red men of America 
came from, have contradicted themselves before they got 
through with their work. But if my work is contradicted, it 
will not be until some one proves that the red men of Amer- 
ica are not the ten tribes of Israel, and also until he proves 
where the ten tribes of Israel are at this time, and also who 
these red men are, and where they came from. No man 
can deny that the red men are not going towards the west 
again, from where I have said they first came, when they 
settled all the eastern countries. 

10th, I suppose that the ten tribes of Israel left Asia about 
the time of the fall of the Persian empire, when Alexander 
the Great conquered the last Persian king, Darius, then the 
ten tribes got free, as Alexander was too far off to have 
any jurisdiction over them, and thus they took counsel to 
leave the multitude of the heathen and go to a land which 
was never known, so I suppose they have been here in 
America, at the lowest calculation, two thousand three 
hundred years. 

llth, I will now endeavor to prove from the Bible, that 
the Israelites were doomed to be scattered over the whole 
world, and to remain there until the latter times, and then 
they shall return back to the land from whence they came, 
and if I fail in proving this, then my work is lost, and I will 
confess my error, but not before that time ; but now I will 
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follow the Israelites no farther back than into their own 
country, and then quit them there, for I believe, from that 
time forward to be a mystery as yet. 

GENESIS, Cliap. IX. 

Ver. 27. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the 
tents of Shem. and Canaan shall be his servant. 

Remarks. 

1st, The children of Japheth, they are the Europeans; and 
the children of Shem, they are the Israelites; and the children 
of Ham and Canaan, they are the Africans ; and the ten 
tribes of Israel came over and settled down in America, and 
after that, the Europeans came over and forced the red men 
to leave their tents or wigwams, and they now dwell in the 
places where they stood, and thus Japheth is enlarged, and 
he doth dwell in the tents of Shem. and the Africans are his 
servants, this is the prediction of Xoah fulfilled to all intents 
and purposes. 

LEVITICIS, Cliap. XXVI. 

Ver. 32. And I will bring the land into desolation; and your 
enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 

33. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw 
out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, 
and your cities waste. 

34. Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths, as long as it 
lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies land ; even then 
shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths. 

35. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest ; because it 
did not rest in your Sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it. 

36. And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a 
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, 
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them ; and they 
shall flee as fleeing from a sword ; and they shall fall when 
none pursueth. 

37. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before 
a sword, when none pursueth ; and ye shall have no power 
to stand before your enemies. 

38. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of 
your enemies shall eat you up. 

39. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their 
iniquity in your enemies land ; and also in the iniquities 
of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 

44. And yet, foi all that, when they be in the land of their 
enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor 
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant 
with them ; for I am the Lord their God. 



Remarks. 

The Lord will scatter them among the heathen, and draw 
out a sword after them, and their land shall be aesolate, and 
upon them that are left alive he will send a faintness, and a 
shaken leaf shall chase them. This was fulfilled in the 
Mexicans, when Fernando Cortez invaded Mexico, for they 
had a tradition among themselves, that one day a people 
would come from the east, who would conquer them, and 
therefore they could not fight, and Cortez, with a handful of 
men, conquered the vast Mexican empire, and treated the 
emperor in the most cruel and infamous manner that cruelty 
could invent./ Again, the Lord saith, that they that are left 
shall pine away in their iniquity, and also in the iniquities of 
their fathers. This is being fulfilled at this time in America, 
for the red men are wasting and pining away at an almost 
astonishing rate, they are getting smaller in numbers every 
year. Again, the Lord saith, that he will not destroy them 
utterly, neither will he break his covenant ; this covenant 
was, that the seed of Abraham should possess the Land of 
Canaan forever, and this covenant will not be broken, for 
they will return to that country towards the end of time, and 
there I will leave them, and follow them no farther, after I 
have got them home into their own country. 

DErTEROXOMY, Cliap. XXXI. 

Yer. — . And it shall come to pass, when many evils and 
troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify 
against them as witness: for it shall not be forgotten out 
out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagina- 
tion which they go about even now before I have brought 
them into the land which I swear. 

JOSEPHUS, Boole IV., Cliap. VIII., Second Column, Page 90. 

Since, when you shall have proceeded so far by your wealth, 
as to contempt and disregard of virtue, you will also for- 
feit the favor of God ; and when you have made him your 
enemy, you will be beaten in war; and will have the land 
which you possess taken away again from you by your ene- 
mies, and this with great reproaches upon your conduct. You 
will be scattered over the whole world, and will, as slaves, 
entirely fill both sea and land ; and when once you have 
had the experience of what I now say, you will repent, and 
remember the laws you have broken, when it is too late. 

Remarks. 

This language of Josephus, that we have before us, is the,;, 
interpretation or paraphrasing of the song of Moses. Whe- 
ther Josephus had the same copy that the translators of our 



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Bible translated from, I believe cannot now be known. Ac- 
cording to Josephus, on the song of Moses, the Israelites 
were to fill, as slaves, both land and sea, and he saith they 
will remember the law^s they have broken. The red men of 
America do now, at this time, keep the Ten Commandments, 
and they keep all the laws as they were given unto them by 
Moses, excepting the ceremonial laws. If, as Josephus saith, 
the Israelites were to be scattered into all the w T hole world, 
then, of course, they must have come into America, for this 
is a large part of the whole world; and the islands were 
found full of the red men also, and, of course, they are of 
the same race : and thus was fulfilled the prediction in the 
song of Moses, as paraphrased by Josephus. 

ISAIAH, CSiap. XI. 

Ver. 11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord 
shall set his hand again the second time to recover the 
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, 
and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and 
from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from 
the Islands of the Sea. 

12. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall 
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the 
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 

Remarks. 

This gathering of the children of Israel from the four cor- 
ners of the earth, is the same as the following text in Mat- 
thew, Mark and Luke : 

MATTHEW, Chap. XXIV. 

Ver. 31. And he shall send his angels w T ith a great sound of 
the trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from 
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

MAKE:, CSiap. XIII. 

Ver. 27. And then shall he send his angels, and they shall 
gather together his elect from the four winds, from the 
uttermost parts of the earth to the uttermost parts of 
heaven. 

LIKE, Cliap. XXI. 

Ver. 28. And when those things begin to come to pass, then 
look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draw- 
eth nigh. 

Remarks. 

The whole of those four texts, which we have here, they are 
one and the same thing; they all allude to the gathering to- 
gether of the Israelites, that remain in the latter times, and 
bringing them into their own land again. 



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JEKEMIAH, Chap. XXX. 

Ver. 8. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord 
of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy necL, uul 
will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve 
themselves of him: 

10. Therefore, fear thou not, O rny servant Jacob, saith the 
Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for lo, 1 will save 
thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their cap- 
tivity ; and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest, and be 
quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 

11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee : though 
I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered 
thee : but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave 
thee altogether unpunished. 

Remarks. 

God saith that he will break the yoke of the heathen from 
the neck of his people, and they shall not serve themselves 
of them any more. Again, the Lord saith he will save them 
from afar, and Jacob shall return, and be in rest : for I am 
with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee, though I make a 
full end of all nations, and they shall return into their own 
land, and the Gentiles shall ail be destroyed about the time 
of the returning of the Israelites. 

EZEKIEL, Ciiap. XXXVI. 

Ver. 24. For I will take you from among the heathen, and 
gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into 
your own land, 

28. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers ; 
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. 

30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase 
of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of fa- 
mine among the heathen. 

Remarks. 

This text saith that God will gather the remaining Israel- 
ites out of all countries, and will bring them into their own 
land, and they shall dwell in the land that he gave unto their 
fathers, and they shall receive no more reproach of famine 
among the heathen. This reproach of famine is being fulfilled 
among the red men of America at this time, for they are 
forced from their homes, and drove out into the wilderness., 
where they are suffering hunger and nakedness, and thou- 
sands of them perish for want of food. 

EZEKIEJL, Chap. XXXVII. 

Ver. 11. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are 
the whole house of Israel; behold they say our bones are 
dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts. 



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21. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I 
will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, 
whither they be gone, and gather them on every side and 
bring them r to their own land. 

25. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto 
Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt, and 
they shall dwell therein, even they and their children, and 
their childrens' children, forever. 

Remarks. 

The dry bones in this text are the whole house of Israel, 
who are scattered over the whole world, and who shall be 
gathered together again, and be brought into their own coun- 
try again in the latter times, and there they shall remain for- 
ever. Some men say that the dry bones in this vision are 
the whole human race coming to life again, and rising from 
their graves ; but this looks very unreasonable, that the 
whole human race should rise from their graves and go to 
the land of Palestine, and there forever remain. But some 
men have their knowledge all upon one sWe; therefore they 
think that everything which hath the name of resurrection 
must certainly signify the rising of the whole human race 
from their graves, and nothing more nor less. 

ATfJOS, Chap. IX. 

Ver. 15. And will plant them upon their land, and they shall 
no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given 
them, saith the Lord thy God. 

Remarks. 

This text also saith that God will plant the children of Is- 
rael upon their own land, and that they shall no more be 
pulled up out of "their land which he hath given them. 

MATTHEW^ Ciiap. XXIV. 

Ver. 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days r 
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the power 
of the heavens shall be shaken. 

30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in 
heaven ; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, 
and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of 
heaven with power and great glory. 

31. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a 
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the 
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

Remarks. 

The appearing of the sign of the Son of man, and the 



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mourning of the tribes of the earth, this will come to pass 
when the Son of God will send down his great judgment to 
destroy the great army of Gog and Magog, which army in- 
cludes all the unregenerated Gentiles : and then he will send 
divine leaders to gather together all the Israelites, who re- 
main at that time, from the four winds, from one end of 
heaven to the other. 

MARK. Cliap. XIII. 

Ver. 24. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun 
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. 

25. And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that 
are in heaven shall be shaken. 

26. And then shall they see the Son of- man coming in the 
clouds with great power and glory. 

27. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather to- 
gether his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost 
parts of the earth to the uttermost parts of heaven. 

Remarks. 

This text is the same as the text in Matthew, although it 
differs a little in the way that it is stated. 

LIKE, Chap. XXI. 

Ver. 24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and 
shall be led away captiveonto_ all nations : and Jerusalem 
shall be trodden down of Gentiles, until the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled, 

"25. And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and 
in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, w 7 ith 
perplexity the sea and the waves roaring ; 

26. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after 
those things which are coming on earth, for the powers of 
heaven shall be shaken. 

27. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a 
cloud, with power and great glory. 

28. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look 
up, and lift up your heads : for your redemption draweth 
nigh. 

Remarks. 

This text is the same as, the parallel text in Matthew and 
Mark. The remaining Israelites are commanded to look up, 
and lift up their heads, for their redemption is drawing nigh. 
Some men say that this consolation was spoken to the dead 
bodies who were in their graves, that they should look up, 
and lift up their heads, for their redemption was drawing 
nigh. But this w T ould be impossible, for a dead man to lift 
up his head and to look up and see his redemption coming. 



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ROMANS, Chap. XI. 

Ver. 25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignor- 
ant of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own 
conceits,) that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until 
the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 

26. And so all Israel shall be saved : as it is written, there 
shall come out of Sion, the Deliverer, and shall turn away 
ungodliness from Jacob. 

Remarks. 

In this text the apostle Paul explaineth this mystery unto 
the brethren, when he saith that blindness in part is hap- 
pened to the Israelites, until the fulness of the Gentiles be 
come in. The way that all Israel will be saved will be this : — 
After the destruction of the unregenerated Gentiles, which 
is the army of Gog and Magog, then all the remaining Isra- 
elites will be gathered together, and will go into their own 
land, and then they will be a righteous people ; and then I 
will leave them, and also for some other man to explain this 
mystery farther. 

JOSEPHI S, Book , Chap. V, Page 225. 

And when these Jews had understood what piety the King 
had towards God, and what kindness he had for Esdras, 
they were all greatly pleased; nay, many of them took 
their effects with them, and came to Babylon as very desi- 
rous of going down to Jerusalem, but then the entire body 
of the people of Israel remained in that country, where- 
fore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject 
to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates 
till now, and are an immense multitude and not to be es- 
timated by numbers. 

Remarks. 

This language of Josephus wants no explaining, for he 
saith that the ten tribes were not subject to the Romans, anc 
as the Romans had dominion over Asia and Europe, Josephiu 
must have known that the ten tribes were not then in Asia 
and Europe, and it is well known that they were not in Af- 
rica, so they must have been in America at that time, and 
of course a long time before, being as they were so very nu- 
merous as not to be numbered. Josephus saith they were t 
beyond Euphrates, but he doth not say how far beyond ; bin' 
it appears to me that Josephus knew that they were not in 
Asia, when he saith there are but two tribes in Asia and Eu- 
rope subject to the Romans. 



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